Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3, sentence 84
I am pretty well acquainted with the ways of cattle, and I never knew a cow, of her own accord, to go so far without stopping.
Who acts: I · What happens: acquaint, not know, go, stop · To what, where: cow
This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Dragon's Teeth., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 acquainted | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 acquainted | aux |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 5 acquainted | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 acquainted | advmod |
| 5 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ways | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ways | det |
| 8 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 acquainted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cattle | case |
| 10 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ways | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 knew | advmod |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 acquainted | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cow | det |
| 17 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 accord | punct |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 accord | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 accord | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 accord | amod |
| 22 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 knew | conj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 far | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 go | advmod |
| 28 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 stopping | mark |
| 29 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 go | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 acquainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquaint speech: other | present · passive | I | with the ways of cattle; pretty, well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | past | I | a cow | of cow's own accord | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | gerund | I not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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